The Tampere team defeated Salon Vilpas 89-80 at home to register their ninth victory in 10 games.

The hosts' Lamonte Ulmer and Kenneth Lowe had 19 points apiece.

Joensuun Kataja are also in good form in the domestic league and won at home at the weekend. Kataja outgunned Lapua 101-96, with Jermaine Flowers and Johnell Smith scoring over half of the team's points between them, 26 each.

Okapi Aalstar stayed at the top of the Belgian Ethias League standings with a comfortable road win, 89-63 at VOO Verviers-Pepinster.

Ryan Thompson paced the championship leaders with 20 points while four of his team-mates also scored in double digits.

Port of Antwerp Giants had an excellent third quarter at home to Leuven Bears and held on to win 63-55 and improve to 3-3 in the standings.

Roel Moors had 17 points and Gregg Thondique registered a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Giants.